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Using chemical bleaches for whitening and bleaching skin can cause harm to your skin in the long run. Therefore, it is essential to use natural remedies for having clean and flawless skin.
Everyone, regardless of being a man or woman, wants to have a flawless, even and smooth skin tone. Skin bleaching is a good option to get rid of the black spots or any other type of spots on the skin. But, skin whitening options have become very complicated these days and there are plenty of options available in the market leaving the customers confused.
Although skin bleaching or whitening could be a good option for getting rid of dark spots or skin discoloration, the process is not free from side effects. Some of the products are rather very harmful and cause skin cancer too. Therefore, it is very important you find out the side effects of skin bleaching before you opt for the whitening of your skin.
Bleaching is, in fact, a process in which the hair on the skin is bleached to match the actual skin tone. However, the side effects are:
- Dark grey spots
- Skin cancer
- Acne
- Swelling of the skin
- Thinning of the skin
- Cataracts
- Setting down of fat on face, chest, upper back and stomach
- Increase in appetite and weight gain
- Osteoporosis
- Neurological and kidney damage due to high level of mercury used in the creams
- Psychiatric disorders
- Severe birth defects
- Asthma
- Liver damage
Some of these side effects could be seen almost immediately while some are seen after prolonged use of skin whitening creams.
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